The Telegraph recently sent one of their journalists, Jessamy Calkin, out to visit WildCRU’s Ruaha Carnivore Project in southern Tanzania, which is led by Dr Amy Dickman. Jessamy wrote a great article on the project in the Telegraph magazine, highlighting the importance of this kind of work for long-term lion conservation and rural development:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/29/british-woman-fighting-save-african-lions-extinction/

Chester Zoo and the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) have joined forces with the shared aim of delivering high-impact conservation research to address the global decline of biodiversity. The new partnership is designed to investigate major challenges in conservation by combining some of the international projects that Chester Zoo coordinate with cutting-edge scientific ... Read full story

Some countries are more committed to conservation than others, a new Oxford University research collaboration has found. The findings are published in Global Ecology and Conservation.
In partnership with Panthera, and colleagues in institutions from Australia to the USA, WildCRU researchers investigated how much, or little, individual countries commit to protecting the world’s wildlife. ... Read full story

Inspired by Linus Carl Pauling, the 1954 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, who remarked “The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.” Dr Emre Can led a team of WildCRU and WAP researchers in an exploration of how crowdsourcing could help conservation. As a focus we ... Read full story

The WildCRU’s ever-growing portfolio of work on climate change, led by Chris Newman, has shown that badger population dynamics and behaviour respond sensitively to trends and variability in weather, making badgers an excellent sentinel species for climate change research.
Building on this platform, and using camera trap data incidental to our work on Scottish wildcats, we ... Read full story